LOST Notes

[mosesbotbol]

Originally Posted by BigCat

From a CNN comment:

"Fake Mom was a smoky too I believe...

Kind of reminded me of my friend's mom. She was sure creepy. Someone had to be the smoke monster to wipe out that village. It has to be mom or Jacob.

Did they ever say what the brother's name is? This episode would've been better if it was earlier in the history of the show. It seems like too much too late.

When does Ben come back to the series?

[kaisersozei]

Originally Posted by mosesbotbol

Did they ever say what the brother's name is? This episode would've been better if it was earlier in the history of the show. It seems like too much too late.

Infant in Black.
Child in Black.
Teen in Black.

[ActionAndy]

Originally Posted by mosesbotbol

Kind of reminded me of my friend's mom. She was sure creepy. Someone had to be the smoke monster to wipe out that village. It has to be mom or Jacob.

Did they ever say what the brother's name is? This episode would've been better if it was earlier in the history of the show. It seems like too much too late.

When does Ben come back to the series?

Yup. It proves that the writers did NOT have a plan all along like they kept insisting. If you look at the series as one long movie or book, there's serious pacing problems. I'd have been so much more invested in the struggles of Jacob and Black if we'd been shown this much sooner. Season one or two preferably, but hell, even earlier in Season 6.

[Brutus2600]

Originally Posted by ActionAndy

Yup. It proves that the writers did NOT have a plan all along like they kept insisting. If you look at the series as one long movie or book, there's serious pacing problems. I'd have been so much more invested in the struggles of Jacob and Black if we'd been shown this much sooner. Season one or two preferably, but hell, even earlier in Season 6.

Two things. I think that they screwed the pacing up because of ABC's refusal to allow them a hard end date to the show, thus they had no idea how long they were going to have to fill out the middle of the story.

Second, I agree I would've been more invested in the Jacob/MIB story if I had seen this episode earlier, but too much earlier and there wouldn't have really been enough understanding of what's going on. Towards the beginning of season 6 or even end of 5 would've been good, earlier than that and I think it wouldn't have made much sense and ruined the whole mystery they wanted to build up about Jacob and the MIB.

[Skywalker]

Originally Posted by mosesbotbol

Kind of reminded me of my friend's mom. She was sure creepy. Someone had to be the smoke monster to wipe out that village. It has to be mom or Jacob.

Did they ever say what the brother's name is?

Much of the episode reminds me of the Biblical story of Jacob and Esau. They were twins; their father favored Esau while their mother favored Jacob. Esau is described as a hunter gather and Jacob is a trickster. Easu was to be blessed and inherit everything but was tricked by his brother, Jacob who didn't like being second choice.

[AD720]

At this point I have completely given up on trying to figure out WTF is going on and I'm just enjoying the ride.

[Mugen910]

Originally Posted by AD720

At this point I have completely given up on trying to figure out WTF is going on and I'm just enjoying the ride.

quitter!